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• "SDS was fueled by the "high-octane naïveté of self-important young people [who wanted to] sweep away the elites — military, business, political — and replace them with a new elite: students." [Chronicle Review]

• “He would tell you, ‘I don't think you should get on this one, this one is too close to where you live, let another member of the delegation work on this one'....He never tried to flim-flam you.” [NYT]

• "The unreceptive crowd immediately fell upon the governor and beat him senseless, bending his body into the shape of the Laffer curve and placing him atop a bonfire constructed entirely from copies of David A. Stockman's The Triumph of Politics." [Radar]

• "The landmark political fact of our time is the replacement of our middle-class republic by a plutocracy. If some candidate has a scheme to reverse this trend, they've got my vote, whether they prefer Courvoisier or beer bongs spiked with cough syrup." [WSJ]

• "It is a reminder of what an utterly different era it was in which he was the reigning political master." [Politico]

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